Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/22/05 17:06

wylbur37 wrote:

> After reading the descriptions of the major distro packages, I
> discovered a somewhat wide spread of download file sizes, from 4.5MB
> for Uniform Server, to 8MB for EasyPHP, to 11.5MB for phpdev, to 21MB
> for WAMP5, to 27MB for XAMPP, all the way to 86MB for Apache2triad.
> I suppose the larger packages include more applications in addition to
> the three main ones.

Not more applications, but more modules for PHP and required libraries.


> Can anyone mention experiences with the above distros and any pitfalls
> they've encountered with any of them?

I think I would have picked EasyPHP, but I rather would have used a *nix
environment where you get everything you need and working with default settings.


> * the description says that it leaves no residue in the Registry
> (which I infer to mean it's probably easy to setup and also easy
> to remove later on).

Microsoft applications leave all registry entries in the register, thats why a
microsoft system gets slower and slower with time when you install and
uninstall programs.


> However, I do have a question about the download file for Uniform
> Server. On their download site, there are apparently two files ...
> UniServer3_2a.exe (4551656 bytes)
> UniServer3_2a.zip (7992383 bytes)
> I assume that the .exe version has an installer program included,
> whereas the .zip version doesn't? So why is the .zip version so much
> bigger than the .exe version?

Bad compression option.



//Aho

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